Forest Protection

Chronicle (Levin), 22 October 1946, Page 4

Forest Protection

The Air Department amiounces that the R.N.Z.A.F. has begun- operUting a fire patrol* fiig'ht in the* Rotorua-Kiangaroa area. This operation is a seasonal one carried' out in co-operation with the* State Forestry Service during- the months' when the fire danger is most prevalent, and will cohtinue until April next year. The flight has to be* constantly on call for observing and locating fires and it will. also carry out communication fl'igMs for State' forestry offieials. Aircraft normally used will be two DB Tigcr* Moths' and one* DH Fox Moth using Rotorua airfield as the base. Trafalgar Day Lord Nelson 's signal that hasbecome a tradition. — "England expects that every" man this day will* do his duty" — was flown againin Auckland yesterday, marking the; 141st anniversary of the Batfcle of Trafalgar. Eight hoists of fiagS from the yard of the forCmast of H.M.N.Z.S. Black Prince at Devonport, repeated the si'gnal' in the' code that was used by the fieet in 1805 when the French ahd Spanish navies were defeated and^ Britainrelieved of threat of ihvasioii by Napoleon. Three hundred ratings of H.M.S. Pliilomel \yere assembled* on the paradb ground a*t the h&vai base for the ceremopy of the* "colours." As eight bells strnck ahd the bng'ler souhded the "sfil'f," eight signarmen- in- the Black Prince' ran up the* Nelson signdl- sihiUltaneously with the CUstOmary hoisting, of the White Eiisigil.